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Old 04-09-2011 | 08:35 AM
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Default RE: If rules change, will you honor new rules?

Similar to a lot of you guys, from the first day of hearing about potential FAA involvement I began considering for myself the question posed in this poll.

I have one airplane that probably flies faster than 100 mph. Would I slow down my flying if there's a 100 MPH speed limit? No I would not slow down. If any of the three clubs I belong to told me to slow down, yes of course I'd slow down. But, I fly at other places besides my AMA clubs.

As far as possible enforcement outside of AMA fields, I think back to Jr High and making M-80s and Cherry Bombs. There actually is a slight connection... In the mid sixties as a kid we mail ordered powder, M-80 casings, Cherry Bomb casings, underwater fuse - everything we needed. We were just kids, we sent cash and it came in the mail! I don't mind saying we were well stocked with Cherry Bombs. But suddenly we could no longer purchase these necessary items of our youth and if I recall correctly it wasn't the result of any new particular law or change in magazine ad policy - it was shipping laws if I recall. It was all about shipping and that's why our supply chain came to an end. Rats! lol, but it was probably a good thing in retrospect.

Fast forward to present day and suddenly heavy shipping restrictions are applied to jet engines. That would cut a lot of the business right there. It's not really so far fetched.